Strategy to promote digital innovation and digital economy in Asia – TBD

Huawei Digital Innovation Conference APAC 2022 taking place May 19-20 brings together more than 1,500 government officials, experts, researchers, partners and analysts from more than 10 countries in Asia. – The Pacific Ocean (APAC) comes to explore the future of digital innovation and the digital economy. Featured topics include a series of ongoing advances in information and communication technology (ICT), accelerating digital transformation across industries, as well as green and low-carbon development.

Strategies to drive digital innovation and the digital economy at APAC

Satvinder Singh, Deputy Secretary-General of the ASEAN Economic Community outlined progress towards the ASEAN Digital Master Plan 2025. Sharing his views on how the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, he said: “Tell Since the COVID-19 pandemic took place, ASEAN has added 60 million new digital consumers, becoming the world’s third largest Internet “base” with nearly 400 million people. reached USD 363 billion by 2025. Digital transformation requires stronger coordinated actions from many stakeholders, including the private sector, to realize the full potential of digital transformation in ASEAN.

Ms. Ajarin Pattanapanchai, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand, expressed her full support for the implementation of the ASEAN Digital Master Plan 2025. She emphasized that this is a strategic approach that puts Prioritize post-COVID-19 economic recovery, maximize the potential of digital and information technology for equal access to public and private services, and build the economy the largest number of ASEAN.

Dr. H. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, Indonesia’s Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy also talked about how innovation has made a more digital Indonesia. “Advanced technology can become the driving force for sectors to recover and revitalize. Localized, personalized and customized Environment, Security, Health and Cleanliness protocols will be needed. In search of new solutions and breakthroughs to accelerate the transformation of industries in Indonesia, we signed a strategic partnership with Huawei to open expand Indonesia’s digital talent force and promote local startups, initially optimizing the use of technology so that industries can recover together and recover stronger.”

Dr Dato’ Sri Adham Bin Baba, Malaysia’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation also said that digitalization applications are becoming so important that it is not just a distant dream, but an immediate need. . Malaysia recently launched the Malaysia Digital Economy Master Plan (MyDIGITAL) to further strengthen and enhance its sustainable digital economy, by providing a collaborative platform and market demand for digital solutions. Digital solutions developed by local digital technology startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These solutions are deployed in the form of systems, devices and software containing programs and artificial intelligence. This will help Malaysia catch up on the road to becoming a high-tech manufacturing nation.

Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications of Bangladesh, added on the effectiveness of the Bangladesh Digitalization Strategy proposed in 2008 on the rapid growth of the country’s communications industry. Specifically, broadband mobile coverage has skyrocketed from 0% to 98.5%, and the number of subscribers has expanded from 40 million in 2018 to 180 million to date. “This has dramatically changed the lives of the people of Bangladesh. This country would not be able to realize these things without the support of all the partners in the industry and in the ecosystem,” he said. emphasize.

Digital Opportunity at APAC?

Mr. Simon Lin, President of Huawei’s APAC Region delivered a speech about the series of digital opportunities at APAC: “Huawei hopes to help APAC build leading and green infrastructure, creating an ecosystem. industry thrives and empowers a comprehensive and sustainable digitalized APAC”.

Mr. Simon Lin, President of Huawei’s APAC Region delivered an important speech

According to Mr. Simon Lin, Huawei has provided connectivity to more than 90 million households and 1 billion mobile users in APAC. Huawei’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market share is currently ranked 4th in the emerging APAC market; and Huawei are integrating electronic and digital technologies into energy digitization, for a greener future.

At APAC, Huawei has established partnerships with nearly 10,000 enterprises and cloud partners, and plans to invest $100 million in the Spark startup ecosystem. Together with partners, Huawei has trained 170,000 local citizens in digital skills and will increase this size to 500,000 in the next 5 years, demonstrating its efforts to develop a talent ecosystem to promote development. digital economy.

Within the framework of the event, Huawei also held a seminar with the participation of leading digital technology experts in the region and came to the conclusion that: Asia – Pacific has strong digital development. and sustainable, depends on effective high-level strategic planning, favorable industrial policies, solid digital infrastructure, widely adopted digital applications and systems. The digital talent ecosystem thrives.

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